What is the gospel?

The word "gospel" literally means “good news.”

It is the good news of what God has done through his Son, Jesus Christ. Isolation from God and broken lives are not God's original design for his creation. God intended men, women, boys, and girls to live in perfect relationship with him and one another. The gospel is God's promise to set things right through the incarnation, atonement, and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus came into the world and became man while not ceasing to be God. This amazing humility showed how low Jesus was willing to go to redeem his people from their sins. Jesus lived a perfect life and then died a sinner's death on the cross. His death on the cross was in the place of all his chosen people who have ever lived or will ever live. Jesus took the wrath of God for sin upon himself and fully paid the debt that every Christian owes to God for sin. This amazing suffering showed how much Jesus was willing to do to redeem his people. But Jesus did not remain dead; on the third day he rose again from the grave and ascended to sit in heaven, ruling there as the king of all creation. Jesus is ordering all of history to the praise of his glorious name.

This is good news! This is the best news that human ears could ever hear!